Yoda: Organization of American States Dead? Chile Playing Both Sides Cuba to Lead the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)?

Spanish, Force Speaks.  English Not. CELAC Rising: The Monroe Doctrine Turned on Its Head? Last Monday, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC) met for its second summit in Santiago, Chile, one year after its founding meeting in Caracas, Venezuela in 2011.  The Summit is the culmination of roughly a decade of efforts …

Mini-Me: Wall Street is Untouchable — No One Goes to Jail

Huh? Phi Beta Iota:  Only Iceland has demonstrated the combination of intelligence and integrity to actually serve the public interest. See Also: Matt Taibbi: GRIFTOPIA – RECAP THE LATEST Report: DOJ Criminal Chief Lanny Breuer Stepping Down January 23, 2013, 6:04 pm ET · by Sarah Childress.  Lanny Breuer is leaving his position as head of the …

Chuck Spinney: Pivotng to China — Criminally Insane, Business as Usual

The attached report by Greg Jaffe in the Washington Post (from 1 August 2012) is an excellent case study of the inside-the-beltway networking by the players in the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC).  Jaffe shows these networks build a consensus to keep defense spending high when wars end and a terrifying peace dividend …

Daniel Ellsberg: Secrecy vs. Whistleblowing in a Democracy

Secreacy and National Security Whistleblowing Daniel Ellsberg Huffington Post repritned from Social Research, 13 January 2013 I) Reflections on Secret-keeping and Identity In the “national security” area of the government — the White House, the departments of state and defense, the armed services and the “intelligence community,” along with their contractors — there is less …

Mongoose: Moti Nissani on Who Killed Aaron Swartz?

For contextual orientation. Who Killed Aaron Swartz? Moti Nissani Veterans Today, 13 January 2014 ”How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?”—Bob Marley On January 11, 2013, according to indoctrination organs of the criminal Syndicate calling itself the US government (a Syndicate comprised, for the most part, of big bankers, …